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Business of the House

May we have a debate in the House about the targeting of the deprived area fund? Roehampton ward—this concerns my constituents living on the Alton and Lennox estates especially—does not receive any support from the fund, even though Putney jobcentre was closed earlier this year. Part of the problem in London is that because we have the most affluent parts of society living next to the most deprived, the assessment at a ward level often creates an average picture that means that the neediest communities do not receive the support from the fund that was intended. May we have a debate in Government time so that we can resolve these problems?